should move a safe distance from the waters edge on the Pigeon River!!” wrote the Cocke County Emergency Management Agency director Joe Esway. Minor flooding is expected along the river tonight ...

It said flooding along the Pigeon River continues related to Hurricane Helene. All of downtown Newport was told to evacuate immediately after the Walters Dam in the community of Waterville ...

WAYNESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A stretch of Interstate 40 through the western North Carolina mountains is reopening to traffic this weekend, months after Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding collapsed ...

Demolition for areas of the Canton paper mill site has started in the months after its sale. It will be a two-year process, ...

Hartford depends on rafting businesses for jobs and tourism dollars. When riverside companies were damaged during Helene, many questioned their livelihood.

The flooding Pigeon River washed away more than a mile of the eastbound lanes on both sides of the state line. Now, transportation departments in both states have built a curb down the middle of ...

After Central Haywood flooded for the second time in 2021, the Haywood County school board decided to throw in the towel rather than repair it. The school board hoped it would find a buyer to take the ...

The ongoing repairs to the Norfolk Southern rail line through Newport have progressed with the replacement of the trestle at ...

Flooding in the Pigeon River gorge in Haywood County washed away over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) of I-40’s eastbound lanes in late September. Although usually a four-lane road, large portions of ...